First Pow day of 2018 season... Jan 26-28

This season has been quite lackluster... especially compared with last year.  And this was probably the first pow day since Nov for this year.  

Vid: Sugar Bowl with Toro... #somanyfailedbackflips

I've been slacking.  #Januburied and a week+ bout of the flu in combination with a work trip to NY has killed my ability to function as a human being.  Let alone have fun... which is what I enjoy doing.... like girls.  

Anyway.... this was a day trip with Toro after the first big storm.  The snow was a bit heavy and you really never sank in more than 8 inches... but skiing is fun.  And storm skiing is really fun.  Great day.  

A quick visit to sidesteppin' heaven...

Day 1 = a bit heavy... but really fun. 

Day 2 = cold, wet, rainy... the snow was actually pretty fun, but once my crotch got wet.. I was done. 

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Check this out... Team Saddlesores riding the Great Divide on unis!

Divide By 1 from trog dor on Vimeo.

Sugar Bowl with Nick B & Kev!

Chasing Nick around

epic day of hucking cliffs

my back is sore...

Check out the in-bounds avy that happened on the same day...

stay safe out there folks... do the lake run with a partner!  http://snowbrains.com/ski-instructor-missing-in-tahoe-since-thursday-search-continues/

Vid TR: Wallowa Hut

play at 720.

I don't know how to embed it at 720 anymore...

Benson Hut! Earth Day Festivities...

Some great shots from Johnny. http://www.backwoodsbayarea.com/2012/04/sunshine-skiing.html

Sure was HOT!

Here's the vid from the trip... and pics below.  

@ 1:02 I thought I was gonna pull one of these... http://vimeo.com/33847762

Friday morning, Moses picked us (Kevin & I) at 505 at 5 am.  Drove up to Tahoe, and beat Miley to our Rendez-vous point... here we are sorting supplies... debating which IPA to take to our hut.  

Miley was good enough to spot us a few vouchers for Sugar Bowl, and the snow was already mashed potatoes at 9 am when we got on the lifts.  Kevin had a minor boot problem repaired in the morning, so Miley, Moses and I skied, drank until our beers for lunch break...

After noon, we took off from the top of Mt. Lincoln following the ridge south out to the Benson Hut.  The snow was so sticky we (as in Miley and I) never put on skins.  Tons of broken off cornices and wetslides on the way out... pretty cool... and scary.

Arrival at the hut!  We chilled out in front of the hut for the rest of the day, drinking, talking, throwing snowballs... and mainly giggling.  The snow was quite warm by this point in the day.  Definitely no freezing going on at night, and no corn cycle starting yet... 

A short bootpack from the hut takes you to the top of Anderson.  A pretty good spot for sunrise/sunsets... 

Kevin had a grin on his face the whole first day...

Miley took off to work at 4 am from the hut.  Probably got some decent skiing in.  I took a few runs in the morning... then Kevin, Moses and I skied the north west face of Anderson.  After a few more laps, we saw Metres, Danielle, Sena, Bertram, Jeanie, Jason, and their dog Whiskey come in.  Had another great day of chilin'... goofing off some kickers, and watching the sunsets.  

The next morning, during our morning ski, we heard a loud BOOM!  We thought it might be a huge cornice breaking off... or Squaw or Sugar Bowl bombing... turns out it was a meteor... http://unofficialnetworks.com/news-coverage-of-this-morning-meteor-strike-near-tahoe.-92508/

After skiing out to Sugar Bowl, we got the best run of our day down the groomer from the top of Lincoln to our car.  Drank a few beers we had stashed in the snow in front of our car... headed down to Donner Lake to a public pier and jumped in.  Stopped by Ikeda's on the way home and made it home just in time to enjoy the foggy bay area sunset...

Pear Lake 2012

My fourth visit to this hut, and definitely didn't disappoint.  I'll let this vid do the talking...

An extended version is here...
http://youtu.be/XJsZ_JvwGkY?hd=1

I've got more pics here...




And the panos here...

Enjoy!

Tallac - (Feb 19, 2012)

Had a great day out in the BC with Metres, D, Toro and Kevin.  Hiked up Spring Creek and went up Mt. Tallac.



We had to go up the gully as the ridge looked like it was way too thin... but I think other folks did go up that way.

Summit lover shot.

Desolations...

My first back of the season!

And soon I was back with the fam in our down outfits.

Skiing!!!

Is SOOOOO much fun.

Went to Alpine this weekend on a day trip to catch some of that white stuff falling from the sky.  My 2nd day of the season... was planning to take it easy, but this was my 3rd time off this drop, saw a kid do a backflip off of it... and Funk & Toro got their cameras out so.... yeah.


Vid from Toro...